The Side Project
When I first started working as a technologist some 17 years ago, I was doing fairly low-level stuff: moving and...
2017-01-11 (first published: 2017-01-04)
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Tim Mitchell
ETL Error Handling
In designing a proper ETL architecture, there are two key questions that must be answered. The first is, “What should...
2016-12-28
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Survey Results: Skipping the Holidays
Last week I posted a brief survey about working the holiday. To those who normally are not required to work...
2016-12-27
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Survey: Skipping the Holidays?
For a little pre-holiday fun, I’ve got a simple scenario to present to you, and I am interested in your...
2016-12-23
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SSIS Custom Logging Levels
In my ongoing series on ETL best practices, I recently wrote about the importance of logging in extract-transform-load processes. For...
2016-12-22
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KPIs in SSRS 2016
Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are at-a-glance metrics for simple insight into the business. These are each designed to provide...
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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Report Portal in SSRS 2016
SQL Server Reporting Services benefits from a major update in SQL Server 2016, which is obvious from the first interaction...
2016-12-20
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The Trails We Leave
Over the weekend I got an email from have i been pwned, a website that tracks data breaches and notifies...
2016-12-19
349 reads
SSRS 2016: Great and Getting Better
Although I’ve been a regular user of SQL Server Reporting Services since it was released in the mid-2000s, I’ve done...
2016-12-18
414 reads
SSIS Execution Status Lookup
The SSIS catalog comes packaged with a rich set of built-in reports that give those monitoring Integration Services a window...
2016-12-17
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Blogs
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my...
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